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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: access() call as a su
Message-ID: <14479@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Nov 90 21:00:15 GMT
References: <1423@nixsin.UUCP> <681@mara.cognet.ucla.edu> <1990Nov14.082556.17480@Think.COM>
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In article <1990Nov14.082556.17480@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>The superuser implicitly has permission to do whatever it wants ...
>including executing files that it doesn't have execute access to
>according to the mode.

Since when?

access() is of very little practical use.